When Henry Moton Pitchford was born on 27 September 1855, in Pickens, Alabama, United States, his father, John Bowen Pitchford, was 39 and his mother, Nancy Aveline Beaty, was 37. He married Mollie Gibson about 1871, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Hartford Township, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1900. He died on 14 November 1943, in Hartford, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English (West Midlands): habitational name from Pitchford in Shropshire; the name is derived from Old English pic ‘pitch, resin’ + ford ‘ford’.
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